Thursday, October 28, 2021

The Night Porter (1974)

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I first watched The Night Porter while in graduate school, and came across it again last weekend as a byproduct of ordering HBOMax t...
Friday, October 22, 2021

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory - Dan Roberts IAS talk

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  This is a nice talk that discusses, among other things, subleading 1/width corrections to the infinite width limit of neural networks. I w...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

PRC Hypersonic Missiles, FOBS, and Qian Xuesen

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There are deep connections between the images above and below. Qian Xuesen  proposed the boost glide trajectory while still at Caltech. Back...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Quantum Hair from Gravity

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New paper! Quantum Hair from Gravity   https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09386  Xavier Calmet, Roberto Casadio, Stephen D. H. Hsu, and Fol...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Embryo Screening and Risk Calculus

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Over the weekend The Guardian and The Times (UK) both ran articles on embryo selection.  Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is i...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Dune 2021

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I have high hopes for this new version of Dune.   Below, a re-post with two Frank Herbert interviews. Highly recommended to fans of the no...
Saturday, October 09, 2021

Leo Szilard, the Intellectual Bumblebee (lecture by William Lanouette)

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  This is a nice lecture on Leo Szilard by his biographer William Lanouette. See also ‘An Intellectual Bumblebee’  by Max Perutz. Wikipedia...
Friday, October 01, 2021

DNA forensics, genetic genealogy, and large databases (Veritasium video)

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  This is a good overview of DNA forensics, genetic genealogy, and existing databases like GEDmatch (Verogen). @15:35 " Multiple law e...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate (Bloomberg Technology)

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Bloomberg Technology covers polygenic embryo screening. Note, baby Aurea is well over a year old now.  I am informed by Genomic Prediction...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

War Nerd on US-China-Taiwan

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Highly recommended. Read this article , which will enable you to ignore 99% of mass media and 90% of "expert" commentary on this...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Men Without Women

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This short story has it all -- genetic genealogy, ultra high net worth physics quant banker, stripper, cop, marriage, family, New Yorker wr...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

PGT-P with Elizabeth Carr and Dr. Serena Chen

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  This is a discussion of Preimplantation Genetic Testing in IVF with Dr. Serena Chen (IRMS and Rutgers medical school) and Elizabeth Carr (...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Chinese Air Power: Justin Bronk RUSI UK

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  This is a good overview. Bronk (Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at Royal United Services Institu...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Kathryn Paige Harden Profile in The New Yorker (Behavior Genetics)

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This is a good profile of behavior geneticist Paige Harden (UT Austin professor of psychology, former student of Eric Turkheimer), with a...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

US debt, dollar-rmb, digital rmb (Gavekal)

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  I agree with Louis Gave's take on most of the topics discussed. Gavekal manages a China fixed income fund and some other China-focused...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Finitism and Physics

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New paper on arXiv today. A brief precis: Gravitational collapse limits the amount of energy present in any space-time region. This in turn ...